soul-crushing

English

Adjective

soul-crushing (comparative more soul-crushing, superlative most soul-crushing)

Demeaning, boring, disheartening.
- 2010, Gayle Soucek, Marshall Field's: The Store That Helped Build Chicago, The History Press, →ISBN, page 17:
  Some came to get rich on their wits and intellect, others on their strength and brawn, toiling from dawn to dusk in soul-crushing labors.
- 2012, Douglas A. Van Belle, A Novel Approach to Politics: Introducing Political Science through Books, Movies, and Popular Culture‎, SAGE, →ISBN:
  And for an introduction to politics course, zombies represent the threat posed by a textbook that is so chock full of soul-crushing boredom that it will smother the mind and rot the flesh right off of students' faces.
- 2013, Kristina Lloyd, Thrill Seeker‎, Black Lace, →ISBN:
  Oh, it was nothing compared to the immediate, soul-crushing loneliness I'd experienced when Baxter and I had split.

Derived terms

soul-crushingly

Translations

demeaning, boring

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